Residents of two Braselton neighborhoods are asked not to drink their water without boiling it.
The city’s water system lost pressure in the Friendship Road area, creating the potential for fecal contamination.
Clearwater and Reflections neighborhoods are affected.
“These conditions may pose an imminent and substantial health endangerment to persons served by the water system in these two neighborhoods,” according to a news release from Braselton.
Consuming water contaminated with disease-causing organisms can lead to symptoms including diarrhea, cramps, nausea and headaches.
Residents in these neighborhoods should bring their water to a rolling boil for three minutes before using it to wash dishes, make ice, brush teeth, prepare food or drink.
Residents can use the water to bathe or flush toilets.
Water department employees are working to repair the line and will evaluate water samples for 24 hours after the line is fixed.
Residents of two Braselton neighborhoods are asked not to drink their water without boiling it.
Residents in these neighborhoods should bring their water to a rolling boil for three minutes before using it to wash dishes, make ice, brush teeth, prepare food or drink.

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY – Residents of Bloomfield and Picton can safely drink tap water after Hastings and Prince Edward Health Unit lifted a boil-water advisory Thursday morning.
The municipality’s Emergency Control Group met with local media shortly after noon at Shire Hall, announcing the Picton/Bloomfield drinking water plant had passed all tests, allowing the Hastings and Prince Edward Health unit to lift the advisory.
The Picton drinking water plant resumed normal operations and was reconnected to the Picton/Bloomfield water distribution system (Wednesday) evening,” he said.
Quaiff said despite the end of the boil-water advisory, the municipality will remain in a state of emergency until likely early next week to ensure no threat remains.
“Although the Health Unit has lifted the Boil Water Advisory, the County will remain in its state of emergency until such time as we are confident that contamination in Picton Bay no longer poses a threat to the drinking water system,” he explained.
“(Barge operators) McKeil Marine has retained Pinchin Limited, one of Canada’s largest environmental, engineering, health and safety consulting firms to develop and perform a water column monitoring program.
Also on Thursday, the Health Unit lifted its advisory for people with shore wells in the area.
If their drinking water has any change in taste, odour, or colour, or if a chemical sheen is seen within 50 feet (15 metres) of your well, it is recommended that they: • avoid drinking the water • use an alternate water source (e.g. bottled water, for drinking and other domestic purposes) • Contact the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change’s Spills Action Centre at 1-800-268-6060 for further information •Test your well water once the issue has been resolved.
Fire Chief Scott Manlow who is chairperson of the Emergency Control Group said he was pleased with the municipality’s role in the situation.
“Residents and businesses in Picton and Bloomfield have had to boil their water for a week now (and) to add to that, we’ve seen that many residents took great measures to conserve their water use since that initial request was made almost two weeks ago,” he said.

Originally posted on October 12, 2016

The city of Fort Dodge Water Department is recommending boiling water before using it for drinking or to use an alternative source for 17th Street Southwest between 14th and 15th avenues SW.

Originally posted on October 11, 2016

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – UPDATE:
Waterline repairs have been completed and a boil-water advisory issued on Tuesday by the Union Williams Public Service District has been lifted.

Residents along a section of Carpenters Run Road who are serviced by the Union William Public Service District are under a boil-water advisory while repairs to a broken waterline are being made.

The homes affected are between 2023 and 3209 Carpenters Run Road, including Happy Hollow.

Richard Sharkey, originally posted on October 12, 2016

A water boil advisory is in effect for the Gum Street area in Alexandria.

Water pressure was lost during repairs to a 2-inch service lateral line in the 600 block of Gum Street, necessitating the boil advisory, according to Alexandria Utilities Director Michael Marcotte.

The boil advisory is in effect until further notice for the Gum Street area, including some customers on Pine Street.

It is recommended that all water consumers in the affected area disinfect their water before consuming it (including fountain drinks), making ice, brushing teeth, or using it for food preparation or rinsing of foods.

By Rebecca Sananes, originally posted on October 12, 2016

A third private property in a Hanover neighborhood has tested positive for a chemical released from a former Dartmouth hazardous waste burial site.

In a letter to residents, Dartmouth said a house well tested .3 micrograms per liter for the chemical 1,4-dioxane. That is below the state-allotted level for the chemical in ground water at 3 micrograms per liter.

However, Dartmouth College is providing those homeowners with bottled water, a point-of-entry treatment system and a health consultant.

This comes just over a year after it was discovered that the chemical 1,4-dioxane, a probable human carcinogen, had gotten into the groundwater and run off the Rennie Farm property.

During the 1960s and ’70s, Dartmouth College research labs were burying hazardous waste materials, including radioactive animal carcasses, scintillation fluid and lab refuse in a hilltop land plot. 1,4-Dioxane is a chemical that was often used in scintillation fluid cocktails during the mid-20th century.

In an email to neighbors, Maureen O’Leary, Dartmouth’s director of environmental health & safety, said the contamination has reached further than initially expected, at nearly a mile away from the Rennie Farm burial plot.

“Although the detection of 1,4-dioxane this far from the site was not considered likely, we recommended homeowner well sampling in that area as a precaution,” she wrote in an email late Monday afternoon. “We are now working with the property owners to investigate how the 1,4-dioxane contamination reached the well and to verify the source, which we believe to be the Rennie Farm property.”

At a community meeting Tuesday night at the Rennie Farm burial site, concerned neighbors gathered to discuss their drinking water.

Amy Nichols said she was shocked when she heard the news. She lives just yards away from the property most recently discovered to have been contaminated.

“We thought we were far enough away and uphill that it definitely wasn’t going to affect us, and to hear that is was is definitely shocking,” she said. “It’s concerning to whether our well has got any levels.”

Nichols and other neighbors in the area are getting their drinking water tested.

Last September, the first drinking well, down the hill from the burial site, tested positive for the chemical. That family has been drinking bottled water provided by Dartmouth ever since. Their well water continues to exceed state limits acceptable for 1,4-dioxane.

Several local streams have also tested positive for the chemical at levels below the state allotted limit for 1,4-dioxane in groundwater. The chemical was also discovered at a second private property last month, but the landowner does not source their drinking water from the contaminated land.

Later this fall, Dartmouth will be installing a pump and treatment system to try and remove the source of the 1,4-dioxane leftover in the Rennie Farm burial plot.

Dartmouth officials and the contractor in charge of following the chemical plume will be holding open hours at the Rennie Farm burial site in Hanover on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 25th.

UPDATE 8:40a.m. October 13, 2016: This post was updated to include the date of an upcoming public information session held to discuss the contamination remediation.

by KTVO News, originally posted on October 12, 2016

Kirksville, Mo. — Kirksville Utility Maintenance crews were repairing a water main Tuesday morning and had to shut the water off.

The affected area will be under 48-hour boil advisory for citizens who live on Hickory Street between Luther and Centennial.

This boil advisory will be from 9:30 a.m. Tuesday until 9:30 a.m. Thursday, October 13, 2016.

For any questions please feel free to contact the Kirksville Public Works Department at (660) 627-1291

By TWC News Staff, originally posted on October 11, 2016

WAYNE COUNTY — A boil water advisory has been extended in Wayne County.

Officials have extended the advisory due to several water line breaks and the potential contamination.

The public may notice periods of low pressure or discolored water until the breaks have been repaired and service fully restored.

This is only a precaution as no contamination has been found in the drinking water.

Originally posted on October 11, 2016

BOSSIER PARISH, La. – UPDATE:

You no longer have to boil your water if you live in the Haughton area.

Officials with the Village Water System announced Thursday that the boil advisory has been lifted for all of Oak Hill Mobile Home Park which included all of Reba Lane, Holly Lane, and Haley Lane.

ORIGINAL STORY:

A water boil advisory has been issued for some residents who live in the Haughton area.

Officials with the Village Water System announced Tuesday that a boil advisory was in effect after an emergency repair on the main line.

The advisory includes the area extending from: All of Oak Hill Mobile Home Park which includes all of Reba Lane, Holly Lane, and Haley Lane.

You should boil your water for at least one minute before eating, drinking, making ice or brushing your
teeth.

The advisory will remain in effect until further notice.

Originally posted on October 10, 2016

The Highland Township Fire Department is reporting a water main break in Ayersville at Watson and Highland Center roads. A boil advisory is in effect for five days.